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Archer is a given name. [1] Notable people with this name include: Archer Alexander (c. 1810–1879), former black slave who served as the model for the slave in the statue variously known as Freedom Memorial and the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington, DC; Archer Baldwin (1883–1966), British Member of Parliament
The surname originated as an occupational name denoting an archer. By the 14th century, the mentioned Middle English and Old French words replaced the native English bowman . In North America , the surname Archer has absorbed many like-sounding names and cognates (for example, the French Archier ).
The famous archery competition of hitting the eye of a rotating fish while watching its reflection in the water bowl was one of the many archery skills depicted in the Mahabharata. [48] Persian Arash was a famous archer. Earlier Greek representations of Heracles normally depict him as an archer.
Archer is the only black U.S. pilot to earn an "ace" designation, for shooting down at least five enemy aircraft. [12] [3] Archer was acknowledged to have shot down four planes, and he and another pilot, Lt Hutchins both claimed victory for shooting down a fifth aircraft. An investigation by the Air Force years later, revealed Lt. Archer had ...
Alice Blanche Legh (1855 – 3 January 1948) was a famous British archer. She has been called "the greatest British woman archer of all-time" [1] and "the greatest British archer ever". [2] From 1881 to 1922, she won the national ladies' archery championship twenty-three times. [3]
Sybil Fenton Newall (17 October 1854 – 24 June 1929), best known as Queenie Newall, was an English archer who won the gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.She was 53 years old at the time, still the oldest female gold medal winner at the Olympic Games.
The Yeoman Archer is a term applied specifically to English and Welsh military longbow archers (either mounted or on foot) of the 14th-15th centuries. Yeoman archers were commoners ; free-born members of the social classes below the nobility and gentry .